“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” – Rabindranath Tagore

In case someone had missed my earlier post I consider myself a Wiccan. I am a solitary, eclectic Wicca, which means that I don’t really follow any particular tradition. I occasionally enjoy myself some kitchen witchery, but my main tools are my tarot cards. I have two tarot decks at home as well as a Russian Gypsy Tarot that I have yet to get the chance to use.

I am mainly focusing on doing minor, comfy rituals on Sabbaths and Esbats. A Sabbath is a bigger holiday, such as the Summer / Winter Solstice while an Esbat is a celebration of the full moon. My rituals are quite simple. Lighting some candles and incense, doing a bit of meditation and doing a tarot reading. I might also have a glass of wine and some honey waffles if I feel like going fancy.

If possible, I do enjoy having rituals with friends. Those usually happen during Sabbaths when we gather up naturally for other festivities as well. It’s nice to do some work together once in a while and just enjoy each others company.

I really enjoy how casual my faith is. I don’t need a cathedral and a grand Mass to be able to practice my faith. I can do it anywhere and anytime I want and if I feel down I don’t have to feel bad about it either. I can follow my own body and energy. If I feel like doing a full ritual with casting protective circles and the whole nine yards, I can, but I don’t have to. The world won’t think any less of me.

So what drew me into Wicca? Mainly because it is empowering for the individual. The world is not ruled by a mystical figure that is control of everything. Instead, we can tap into the power that flows through the word and makes it tick when we need an extra boost. At least that is how I see it. I don’t think that magic can do the things for me, quite the opposite, but what I do with my magic work helps me focus on whatever I need a bit of help with. If I have a confidence issue that sticks around I could do a love spell to help me see the positive sides of me instead of the negative.

Most faiths have some kind of proclamation for what you believe in and a rule set. The Wiccan Rede is the one I follow and goes as follows:

Bide the Wiccan Law ye must,
In perfect love, in perfect trust,
Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill:
And ye harm none, do what ye will.
What ye sends forth comes back to thee,
And ever mind the Rule of Three
Follow this with mind and heart,
And merry ye meet and merry ye part.

There are still quite a lot of misconceptions about Wicca out there, but I hope that by telling a bit about how I view it and what it means to me I can help clear things up a bit. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them down below!

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. – Jim Rohn

I am one of those lucky people who doesn’t have the most complicated history with my body. I have always been small and pretty petite, but now that in my 20s that has started to change. I have gone up in weight and my body has changed accordingly. This is a completely natural change and nothing that I am happy about, quite the opposite. I finally feel like I am at a weight where I feel safe and don’t have to worry about eating enough every day and having issues with my blood sugar and energy.

For a bit of background: I don’t feel hunger essentially ever. My body does not give me cues that it needs nourishment and that my blood sugar is dropping. My first hint at needing food is that I start feeling nausea and headaches after maybe 8-10 hours without eating. As you can see that isn’t a healthy habit and I have managed to start making sure that I eat properly after a pretty horrible spring and summer two years ago.

Now that I am at a much healthier place in my life I have started to feel like there is still something missing. Exercise. I have never been the sporty person, quite the opposite, and I’m starting to feel it. I have pretty much no muscles at all and can barely make it up three flights of stairs to my apartment without getting winded. In the autumn I will be starting archery when the beginner’s course rolls around, but I do need something more than that. Something that gives me a bit of muscle and more dexterity would be very nice.

So here you can see my starting point:

I will be making an update post in about a month to see if there is a difference and what I actually did. No chickening out this time!

Up close and personal, right on Monday already? Yeah. because why not. I spent this Saturday at Kokkola Pride and figured it would be nice to do something related to that. Sexuality is still a complicated theme for me personally as I never really figured out things about myself in that part. I’ll go into that in a bit. First, we need a real quick history lesson.

What is Pride Month and why do we need that?

Pride Month is celebrated in June in memory of the Stonewall Riots which occurred at the end of June in 1969. Brenda Howard The Stonewall Riots where the tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the US. The month is meant to celebrate and to remember the impact of members in the LGBTQ+ community.

Our crew at Pride (minus my SO who took the picture)

Well, what’s your sexual identity then?

Thank you for asking! To be honest, I am not really sure. I did identify as bisexual at some point in my teens, but never really said or told anyone about it. (Hi Mom, Dad and the rest of my family who reads this!) Now that I am a bit older and “wiser” I am not really certain if that is true though.

This is also where it gets a bit wonky, at least in my head, as I am and always been in heterosexual relationships. I think it’s just because that is what I saw as normal and just how it was. I never really thought about things in that manner and just rolled with it. Does that mean that I identify as straight now? No, not really. I’m still on the fence between pansexual and bisexual as the two are kind of the same in the end, but I haven’t figured out which label I am more comfortable with. It all also goes very confusing when you stop seeing gender on a binary scale.

Bisexual flag

Pansexual flag

Either way, while I get my own identity together I do consider myself an ally. There is still so much discrimination and hate towards LGBTQ+ people around the world, but also here right at home. Did you, for example, know that trans people must be sterilized if they want to change their gender officially in Finland? If you want to know more about this you can find more information about it (in Finnish) at Kuuluu Kaikille.

So use Pride Month to support your friends, family, and fellow strangers even if their life might look a bit different than yours. Stand up against bigotry, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and hate speech everywhere you can.

Welcome to my realm of madness! Take a seat, have some tea and try not to choke on the cupcakes.
I am a 20-something-year-old business student from Vaasa with more than a few geeky hobbies. Here you can read about Lolita fashion, my life, Dungeons and Dragons and what happens to be on my mind at the moment.